Stabilizing OC and Benchmark score Q's!!!!!!

[Devorikk]

Heya all,

The system listed in my sig is now complete and running, but I have some questions about benchmark scores:

3DMark05: 10,250
Aquamark 3: 79,250

The 3DMark05 seems right on the money from what I've read.

Now another poster stated that Aquamark relies heavily on CPU and that may be the bottleneck. He suggested to boost CPU to 2.4ghz...well quite honestly I can't get it to stabilize past 2.15ghz. I run at 40C idle and 54C full load at my current clock speed, with good ventilation and fans (Panaflo, Zalman, etc).

Is Aquamark just not optimized to take advantage? Or are there any suggestions for getting a better OC?

Thanks,

--Dev